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EP0490210B1
EP0490210B1 EP91120649A EP91120649A EP0490210B1 EP 0490210 B1 EP0490210 B1 EP 0490210B1 EP 91120649 A EP91120649 A EP 91120649A EP 91120649 A EP91120649 A EP 91120649A EP 0490210 B1 EP0490210 B1 EP 0490210B1
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Werner Dipl.-Ing. Borchert
Hans Henning Von Cleve
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D1/00—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, in which the other heat-exchange medium is a large body of fluid, e.g. domestic or motor car radiators
    • F28D1/02—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, in which the other heat-exchange medium is a large body of fluid, e.g. domestic or motor car radiators with heat-exchange conduits immersed in the body of fluid
    • F28D1/03—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, in which the other heat-exchange medium is a large body of fluid, e.g. domestic or motor car radiators with heat-exchange conduits immersed in the body of fluid with plate-like or laminated conduits
    • F28D1/0308—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, in which the other heat-exchange medium is a large body of fluid, e.g. domestic or motor car radiators with heat-exchange conduits immersed in the body of fluid with plate-like or laminated conduits the conduits being formed by paired plates touching each other
    • F28D1/0316—Assemblies of conduits in parallel
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
    • B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
    • B23K26/20—Bonding
    • B23K26/21—Bonding by welding
    • B23K26/22—Spot welding
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
    • B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
    • B23K26/20—Bonding
    • B23K26/21—Bonding by welding
    • B23K26/24—Seam welding
    • B23K26/242—Fillet welding, i.e. involving a weld of substantially triangular cross section joining two parts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
    • B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
    • B23K26/20—Bonding
    • B23K26/21—Bonding by welding
    • B23K26/24—Seam welding
    • B23K26/244—Overlap seam welding
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
    • B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
    • B23K26/20—Bonding
    • B23K26/21—Bonding by welding
    • B23K26/24—Seam welding
    • B23K26/26—Seam welding of rectilinear seams
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
    • B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
    • B23K26/20—Bonding
    • B23K26/21—Bonding by welding
    • B23K26/24—Seam welding
    • B23K26/28—Seam welding of curved planar seams
    • B23K26/282—Seam welding of curved planar seams of tube sections
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F3/00—Plate-like or laminated elements; Assemblies of plate-like or laminated elements
    • F28F3/02—Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations
    • F28F3/025—Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations the means being corrugated, plate-like elements
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
    • B23K2101/00—Articles made by soldering, welding or cutting
    • B23K2101/04—Tubular or hollow articles
    • B23K2101/14—Heat exchangers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F2275/00—Fastening; Joining
    • F28F2275/06—Fastening; Joining by welding
    • F28F2275/067—Fastening; Joining by welding by laser welding

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  • the invention relates to a heat exchanger according to the features in the preamble of the claim.
  • the invention has for its object to improve this heat exchanger so that, with simple manufacture, corrugated ribbed belts can be welded perfectly heat-transferring to the large-area pipe flanks while largely avoiding bending stresses and warpage of the exchanger pipes and the ribs.
  • a heat exchanger according to the invention attains such rigidity that it is possible to galvanize it completely at once. There is no fear that the hot stretching limits of the materials used will be exceeded.
  • the width of a heat exchanger can be easily adjusted to the usual width of the zinc bath, because the heat exchanger does not require any additional support structures due to its excellent rigidity.
  • both the tube sheets and any distribution and Collecting chambers are galvanized at the same time as the exchanger tubes.
  • the manufacturing effort can be made even more economical.
  • the multiple connection of the ribbed belts along their apex areas with the tube flanks is based on the fact that the exchanger tubes are formed from tube shells. Before the pipe shells are welded along their longitudinal edges to form circumferentially closed exchanger pipes, a flawless connection between the apex areas of the ribbed belts and the pipe flanks can be produced from the inside of the pipe flanks by means of fusion welding beams (laser beams or electron beams).
  • each ribbed belt is first brought into contact with the outside of a pipe shell via the apex areas.
  • the ribbed belt is then displaced together with the pipe shell at an identical speed in the longitudinal direction of the pipe shell and connected to one another from the inside of the pipe shell by a fusion welding jet which is guided back and forth obliquely to the direction of advance of the pipe shell and the ribbed belt.
  • the tube shell with such fins is rotated through 180 ° and the free apex regions of the ribbed band are brought into contact with the outside of another tube shell.
  • the finned pipe shell and the further pipe shell are moved longitudinally together at an identical speed and the free apex areas of the ribbed band are also connected to the further tubular shell by a fusion welding jet which is guided back and forth obliquely to the direction of advance of the tubular shell over the entire width of the tubular flank of the further tubular shell.
  • a heat exchanger is then ultimately completed by welding the longitudinal edges of finned pipe shells.
  • 1 denotes a heat exchanger which is composed of a total of eight exchanger tubes 2 arranged in a row next to one another with fins 3 incorporated between the exchanger tubes 2 and tube ends 5 receiving the tube ends 4 as at least indirect components of distribution or Collection chambers composed.
  • the exchanger tubes 2 are those which have a slim cross-section in the flow direction SR of the outer exchanger medium, the length L - equal to the tube flank width - (apart from the rounded end sections 12) being a multiple of the width B of an exchanger tube 2.
  • the exchanger tubes 2 are formed from tube shells 7 welded to one another via their longitudinal edges 6, as can be seen from FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • the fins 3 connecting the two exchanger tubes 2 form, as can be seen in the area B of FIG. 3, part of a meandering angled fin band 14.
  • the width B1 of the spacing sections 15 determining the distance between two exchanger tubes 2 is greater than the width B2 of the the outer sides 10 of the tube flanks 11 dimensionally come to contact sections 16.
  • a plurality of transversely directed features 17 are provided in the longitudinal course of each spacing section 15. The forms thus form offset sections 15 and contact sections 16 which are used to generate turbulence which ensures improved heat transfer.
  • One of the contact sections 16 comes to rest on one pipe shell 7 and the other on the adjacent pipe shell 7.
  • a fusion welding beam 20 e.g. a laser beam, in accordance with the dash-dotted lines 21 of FIG. 3, is guided in a zigzag manner over the inner sides 22 of the tube flanks 11 in such a way that the contact sections 16 are properly connected to the tube shells 7.
  • the tube ends 4 are inserted into the cutouts 23 in the tube sheets 5 which are adapted to the cross section of the exchanger tubes 2 and are welded to the tube sheets 5 in the region of their end faces 24.
  • the welding can be carried out with conventional welding processes, but also with fusion welding jets.

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ES (1) ES2063430T3 (es)
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IL100264A0 (en) 1992-09-06
ATE113708T1 (de) 1994-11-15
ZA919524B (en) 1992-09-30
DE59103422D1 (de) 1994-12-08
IL100264A (en) 1995-03-30
AU653755B2 (en) 1994-10-13
DE4039293C3 (de) 1995-03-23
MX9102394A (es) 1992-07-01
EP0490210A1 (de) 1992-06-17
ES2063430T3 (es) 1995-01-01

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